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  • UCL Research on Support for Live Facial Recognition Technology

    • Reference: 2020/4231
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    UCL’s JDI Institute for Global City Policing recently published a detailed survey looking at policing during the COVID-19 pandemic which showed, among other things, that the use of Live Facial Recognition technology was opposed by 55% of those surveyed. In light of this will you reconsider your support for the Met using this technology?

  • Long-Term Future of Wimbledon Police Station

    • Reference: 2020/4232
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    I understand that Wimbledon Police Station’s future has been secured for at least the next 2-3 years given the Merton/Wandsworth rapid response unit is moving there. However, can you provide any further update on long-term plans for the station?

  • The Met’s Estate Strategy (1)

    • Reference: 2020/4233
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    Appreciating that the pressures of COVID-19 and the uncertainty surrounding the number of additional officers the Met will receive from the Government’s officer uplift, please provide an update on when the Met expects to complete its revised Estate Strategy?

  • The Met’s Estate Strategy (2)

    • Reference: 2020/4234
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    Will MOPAC be working with the Met on how they dispose of any properties identified as no longer required in the Estate Strategy, particularly in looking at making sure the Met works with local authorities to ensure that not only maximum price is considered, but that for certain sites supplementary planning documents are worked up to ensure redevelopment of sites requires either community-based uses or developments with acceptable levels of affordable housing, regardless of their size?

  • Sistah Space (1)

    • Reference: 2020/4235
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    Hackney-based Sistah Space is the only specialist domestic violence charity for Afro-Caribbean women in the entire country. The recent agreement reached between Hackney Council and Sistah Space only gives them access to their current premises until 17 January 2020. Given the 300% growth in demand Sistah Space has seen since the start of COVID-19 and the fact that they receive funding for their specialist and vital services through MOPAC, can you please outline how both you and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime will be supporting them in their search for new premises?

  • Sistah Space (2)

    • Reference: 2020/4236
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    Sistah Space submitted a petition to you several weeks ago and are yet to receive a reply. Can you please outline when you will be replying to their petition?

  • New Forms of Technology and Domestic Abuse

    • Reference: 2020/4237
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 11 December 2020
    Can you please outline detail on the work MOPAC is doing to look at the role new forms of technology can play in domestic abuse, and how this can be tackled going forward?

  • Suspension of scrappage scheme for vans and minibuses (2)

    • Reference: 2020/2545
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 10 September 2020
    TfL’s website currently states: “Eligible charities that want to scrap a minibus after Friday 28 August 2020 should contact us using the online enquiry form.” What exactly is the current position in relation to future grant applications by charities for support in scrapping minibuses? Will they be processed and if so, please state the exact date that charities have to make an application under the TfL scrappage scheme?

  • Wearing of masks on public transport (1)

    • Reference: 2020/2546
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 10 September 2020
    Considering that maintaining public safety is in part central to the long term financial future of TfL please state since the 4 July 2020 (a) how many people have been stopped getting on public transport services by TfL enforcement officers, and (b) prevented from boarding services, and (c) asked to leave services due to the non-wearing of face masks

  • Wearing of masks on public transport (2)

    • Reference: 2020/2547
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 10 September 2020
    Considering that maintaining public safety is in part central to the long-term financial future of TfL please state what is TfL’s current estimate of the proportion of the travelling public that are currently wearing a face mask?